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In the programme, Adam Henson travels to America to see first hand exactly what intensive farming means – for the animals and for the environment. His trip coincides with plans for the UK’s biggest ever dairy farm in Nocton, Lincolnshire, which have faced fierce opposition.He meets vet Dr Gordon Jones who runs Central Sands Dairy in Wisconsin – the inspiration behind plans for the biggest ever dairy in the UK. Dr Jones has been one of the main advisors to the company behind the dairy at Nocton, Lincolnshire. He tells Adam that whilst many people may be unhappy that smaller farms might be put out of business by mega dairies like his, few people are prepared to pay a premium price for their milk to help them survive.
Adam then travels to Indiana to see one of the biggest dairy farms in the world – Fair Oaks Farm Park, which has 32,000 cows in giant sheds on a 17,000 acre site. The farm has managed to turn its large scale intensive farming operation into a tourist attraction with nearly half a million people visiting every year. The farm produces nearly two million pints of milk every day. Adam sees the scale of the operation from a helicopter. “Makes my farm look like an allotment,” he says. Adam then meets with CEO Gary Corbett who tells him it’s a ‘family’ business that just happens to be bigger than those down the road.
